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Hoophouse production

Growing for Market has been promoting the benefits of hoophouse production for more than a decade, since the GFM editors put up four hoophouses on their own farm in Kansas. It's hard to overstate the importance of a hoophouse to a small-scale vegetable and flower farm. The benefits are so significant that we believe a hoophouse should be one of the first things you buy when starting a small farm. You are much more assured of success growing in a hoophouse than outside.

You can trust Growing for Market to keep you informed about developments in hoophouse production. You'll find updates on this website, and you'll read the most cutting-edge practical articles in the regular issues of Growing for Market. If you're not already a subscriber, please join us and subscribe today.

The Hoophouse Handbook is a collection of articles from GFM about hoophouse production. It covers buying, siting and building the best structure for your location, plus articles by growers all over North America about the most valuable crops to grow in a hoophouse. The Hoophouse Handbook is 60 pages, softcover, with color photos. $16, or $12.80 for GFM subscribers. Buy The Hoophouse Handbook

Now available: Growing for Market focused on hoophouse production in 2010. This 36-page book is a collection of all those articles.

If you missed the 2010 issues of Growing for Market, you can
purchase this collection of articles about hoophouse production. Topics
include:

The most profitable uses for valuable hoophouse space

Innovations in sidewalls, inexpensive new do-it-yourself ideas

Managing soils, pests, weeds, diseases in the hoophouse

Movable hoophouses: why and how

Common hoophouse problems solved

How to use a hoophouse in a mild climate

How to tighten up a hoophouse for a frigid climate

A quick and easy system for putting row cover on crops inside the hoophouse

Scheduling crops (when to plant) and projecting income

Cold-tolerant vegetables for fall harvest, winter harvest, and overwintering for early spring harvest

These articles have recently been added to Growing for Market Online

Here's an unusual use for your high tunnel: party space. Ralph Cramer, the U.S. distributor for Haygrove tunnels, sent along these photos of a Haygrove Super Solo converted to an elegant evening dinner venue.

When daylength is less than 10 hours, as it is during the depths of winter in much of North America, most plants stop growing because of the lack of light. But in early to mid February, the days are long enough again for plant growth to resume. If you have a heated greenhouse or an unheated hoophouse, you can get an extra-early start to your season. Here are some ideas for plants to start now through April.

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